Food, the Body and the Self
Food, the Body and the Self Books
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Food and eating practices are at the centre of the new concern in Western societies about the body, self-control, health, risk, consumption and identity. Even as individuals enter the world with the need to eat to survive, from the moment of birth their responses to food and eating practices are shaped by the way in which they interact with others and with cultural artefacts. As such, the meanings, discourses and practices nearly food and eating are worthy of detailed analysis and interpretation.
In an exciting, wide-ranging and plotting-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and private meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions and prejudice. In doing so, she includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the context of childhood and the family, as well as the social construction of foodstuffs as gendered. Other areas considered include food tastes, dislikes and preferences, the dining-out experience, spirituality and the `civilized’ body. She draws on a diverse range of sources, including representations of food and eating in film, literature, advertising, gourmet magazines, news reports and broadcast health literature, as well as her own empirical research relating to the meanings of food in everyday life.
Food, the Body and the Self’s strong interdisciplinary approach incorporates discussion of a number of major contemporary social and cultural theorists, including Bourdieu, Elias, Kristeva, Grosz, Falk and Foucault. This book will be essential reading for students and academics interested in the sociology and anthropology of food, the sociology of everyday life and consumption and of health and illness, medical anthropology, cultural studies and the study of diet and nutrition.
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